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Ultrastructure of paraspermatozoa of cerithiacean gastropods (prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda)

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Using transmission electron microscopy, paraspermatozoa of representative species of the families Cerithiidae, Potamididae, Planaxidae, Dialidae and the genusAustralaba (family position uncertain) have been examined and compared with those produced by other prosobranchs, particularly other investigated cerithiaceans. Special attention is focused on the phylogenetic importance of paraspermatozoa and euspermatozoa within the superfamily Cerithiacea. The paraspermatozoa of cerithiacean gastropods fall into two structural categories: (1) those with a ‘head’ region and a ‘tail tuft’ (number of tails and the length of the tail tuft variable — Cerithiidae, Planaxidae, Potamididae, Modulidae, Turritellidae, Campanilidae, Pleuroceridae,Obtortio, Australaba); and (2) those with an elongate, vermiform body filled with large electron-dense vesicles and up to ninety axonemes — the latter emerging as numerous short tails from the posterior half of the paraspermatozoon body (Dialidae).

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Healy, J.M. Ultrastructure of paraspermatozoa of cerithiacean gastropods (prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda). Helgolander Meeresunters 40, 177–199 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01987294

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